Ethel Rhind was an Irish stained-glass and mosaic artist, and was associated with An Túr Gloine.
Background
Rhind was born 1 December 1877 in Arrah, Bihar, India. Her father was Robert Hunter Rhind, a civil engineer born in Edinburgh, who was working in the Indian civil service. Her mother, Hannah Rhind (née Tate), was from White Abbey, County Antrim, and was a relative of the Gore-Booth family of Lissadell House, County Sligo.
Education
Rhind was educated at Londonderry High School, and later the School of Art, Belfast where she earned an art teacher"s certificate in 1900.
Career
In 1902, she was awarded a scholarship to study mosaic under Mission Holloway at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Artist Rhind was an early student of Alfred East. Child, who taught stained glass craft. Her student work was exhibited at the Irish International Exhibition in 1907.
Rhind entered Sarah Purser"s An Túr Gloine in 1907–1908 to work on stained glass and opus sectile.
Rhind died 6 March 1952 in a nursing home in Dún Laoghaire.
Membership
From 1917, she was a member of the Guild of Craft Workers.